[OSM-talk] Girona house videos all posted

2010-09-08 Thread David Carmean
All of the SoTM10 Girona house a/v system videos are now uploaded to vimeo; links found here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2010#Sessions_list With the following exceptions: * I'm missing the source file for Saturday morning in the main chamber; there may also be a

[OSM-talk] Girona videos for Friday now on-line

2010-09-04 Thread David Carmean
Quick cuts from the venue a/v system's recordings are now available here: http://vimeo.com/album/932606 Saturday and Sunday videos will appear gradually over the next couple of weeks, as we have time to work on them. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM.us videos

2010-08-28 Thread David Carmean
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 08:36:24PM +, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 19:17, pavithran pavithra...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 August 2010 00:39, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: That's great. What was the status of the non-US SOTM videos, are those up

Re: [Talk-us] Meetups around the US

2010-08-25 Thread David Carmean
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:39:03PM -0400, Katie Filbert wrote: Getting together at a coffeehouse or cafe works too. The local library is also a good place to meet (they probably have rooms available to reserve for free + wi-fi). Making it a combo mapping-socializing event works. If it's

[OSM-talk] SotM.us videos

2010-08-24 Thread David Carmean
I'm beginning to edit/encode/upload the session videos from SotM.us 2010 http://vimeo.com/channels/128913 I'm tweeting each upload to #sotmus. Takes a few hours to edit/upload each session so expect two or three per day. ___ talk mailing list

[Talk-us] sotm.us 2010 video uploads begin

2010-08-24 Thread David Carmean
This is taking more processing power and wallclock time than I'd expected, but I'm beginning the editing/encoding/uploading of the 2010 SotM.US videos, to: http://vimeo.com/channels/128913 The small test video gives an idea of the technical challenges faced :) Clearly there are

Re: [Talk-us] Presentations?

2010-08-19 Thread David Carmean
slideshare.net seems to be very popular and where most of the Girona docs seem to have ended up. And a meta question: which website? :) I like the design/concept of the sotm.us website, but I would also like to see the proceedings, such as they are, be discoverable by searching the main

Re: [Talk-us] A Friendly Guide to 'Bots and Imports

2010-08-05 Thread David Carmean
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 01:38:36PM -0500, Ian Dees wrote: I think the NHD import is a good example of a well-intentioned importer (me) gone wrong. I had initially planned to import the whole darn thing in one swoop, but various technical and life challenges came up before I could get it

Re: [Talk-us] A Friendly Guide to 'Bots and Imports

2010-08-05 Thread David Carmean
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:38:47PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Katie, your computer thinks it is the year 2000. I see you sent that from your iPhone. Maybe you had your fingers on the wrong spot so it didn't get a time signal. Not only that, all of your messages (katie) are being

[OSM-legal-talk] new license use case questions

2010-07-08 Thread David Carmean
I'd like to get input on a couple of use-cases under the ODBl: An organization (US tax-exempt non-profit) operates a UMN mapserver to provide public parks information. They use a shapefile generated from a filtered snapshot of OSM data--leaving only roads--as a base layer. Obviously they will

[Talk-us] Cloudmade california.osm: dups or osmosis bug?

2010-05-20 Thread David Carmean
Is it the dataset or osmosis that is giving me a single 2-node duplicate for each postGIS table created by osmosis? Or PEBCAK? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Gov't/military firing ranges --- not sport

2010-05-08 Thread David Carmean
I'm reluctant to tag civil/military gov't firing ranges as sport. I'd consider them more as hazardous areas to mark/avoid, but I don't know how to tag them as such. Ideas? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] How would you tag this? (nested land-use/ownership)

2010-05-06 Thread David Carmean
Driving around yesterday, I found the following unmapped feature: A private dog training facility (Schutzhund club), with a building and training yard... ...in the middle of a mostly vacant field in an industrial area, which ...is diked, former marshland, which... ...is owned by a salt

Re: [OSM-talk] How to manage GPX files?

2009-12-29 Thread David Carmean
Before I learned about OSM, I had already purchased some commercial software called ExpertGPS (the Pro version so I could convert the traces to SHP). I could do the GPX-SHP conversion with free tools now that I've learned about it. What I still like about ExpertGPS is the ease of editing GPX

Re: [OSM-talk] Slightly OT: Learning GIS?

2009-12-13 Thread David Carmean
I have discovered on-line, but not yet read, what appears to be a very comprehensive textbook: http://www.spatialanalysisonline.com/ I'm just a hobbyist and my GIS use includes little or none of the true analysis and synthesis that GIS can perform; I'm basically using it as a powerful map

[Talk-us] NHD: conflict resolution heuristic?

2009-12-06 Thread David Carmean
I've got a bit of time to start working on the NHD import again, and after importing both OSM and NHD data into my GIS app, I'm not quite sure what to do with it; that is, I don't really have a procedure for resolving conflicts visually/manually, let alone automating the process. Would like

[Talk-us] tiger:separated

2009-07-24 Thread David Carmean
What is the intent of the tiger:separated tag? Was it to indicate that a single way actually represents a set of two or more parallel ways? What should we do when we modify a single TIGER way to represent the true divided nature of a street/road? For example, when I copy the entire way

[Talk-us] California GIS data is public domain?

2009-07-24 Thread David Carmean
[ OK, I see that this was posted to the list back in February, but I don't find any further discussion about it... is there a way to search just the legal-talk archive? ] Just found this article about an appeals-court decision on the Santa Clara County GIS brouhaha:

[Talk-us] [SF Bay Area] Sunnyvale/Santa Clara mapping party....

2009-07-23 Thread David Carmean
Anybody planning/schedule to attend the SF South Bay mapping days this weekend, please contact me via direct email. d...@halibut.com Thanks. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[OSM-talk] Campus, medical center, commercial?

2009-07-19 Thread David Carmean
Not finding definitive info on these questions in the wiki or mail archives, at least so far. I have questions about how to draw two types of campuses or sites. The first example is a medical center, which may have one or more primary Hospital buildings and a number of smaller office

Re: [OSM-talk] Campus, medical center, commercial?

2009-07-19 Thread David Carmean
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:54:30PM -0700, David Carmean wrote: Not finding definitive info on these questions in the wiki or mail archives, at least so far. I have questions about how to draw two types of campuses or sites. The first example is a medical center, which may have one

[Talk-us] TIGER corrections: tagging for source of corrected data?

2009-07-19 Thread David Carmean
Is there any talk of/conventions/tags for identifying the source of data used to correct TIGER errors? For example, my own GPS track/survey, somebody else's GPS track, USGS Urban Area, DLG, etc? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Help getting webkit up on vista 64?

2009-07-11 Thread David Carmean
Not sure if this is inappropriate, but I want to use Yahoo imagery with JOSM. I can't figure out how to get webkit-image built. As an aside: is terraserver moving like whale $h1t for everybody? How long has it been like this? -- Dave C, 2nd St.

Re: [OSM-talk] Help getting webkit up on vista 64?

2009-07-11 Thread David Carmean
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 01:55:17AM +, John Smith wrote: --- On Sat, 11/7/09, David Carmean d...@halibut.com wrote: Not sure if this is inappropriate, but I want to use Yahoo imagery with JOSM.  I can't figure out how to get webkit-image built. You no longer need to, the latest

Re: [OSM-talk] XAPI relations query returns only nodes

2008-12-01 Thread David Carmean
it with /api/0.5/relation[type=route] and the response looked ok. Plenty of relation elements. What query did you actually use? 80n On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, David Carmean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently ran a XAPI query for relations, which returned only nodes

[OSM-talk] XAPI relations query returns only nodes

2008-11-30 Thread David Carmean
I recently ran a XAPI query for relations, which returned only nodes and not the relations themselves. Not very useful, I'd say :) XAPI queries for ways have also been returning associated relations. Any XAPI developers on the list? ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] open space land

2008-11-20 Thread David Carmean
Open Space implies much less development than a park, usually. It's usually rendered on maps as a lighter color than parks. I've found some legal definitions here: http://www.sonomatrails.org/docs/cagenpln.htm The next levels of protected land in the U.S. are Wilderness and Federal

[OSM-talk] osmlib osm-export shp column name size limit?

2008-11-15 Thread David Carmean
Playing with Jochen's Ruby osmlib for the past couple of hours; trying to convert osm to shapefiles. I find that the column names I configure in the setup section are truncated to ten characters. Has anyone else run into this? This is osmlib 0.1.3. Thanks.

[OSM-talk] natural=peak, ele vs. elevation

2008-11-13 Thread David Carmean
I want to place some hilltop/mountaintop peak nodes, and I see that there's a discrepancy between the instructions on the Features page and what, for example, Osmarender wants. Osmarender seems to want elevation while the wiki recommendation is for ele. What does Mapnik want? Which is

[OSM-talk] shp2osm.pl: duplicated way nodes

2008-11-11 Thread David Carmean
I'm trying to import some shapefiles with areas into JOSM; so far I haven't been able to get closed ways. I just tried shp2osm, and I get Duplicated Way Nodes errors in the validator. I've also tried a two-step process with a couple of tools, DNRGarmin and ExpertGPS. These can produce GPX

[Talk-us] mixed-use roads (was Re: Track or path?)

2008-11-10 Thread David Carmean
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:41:28PM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote: David Carmean writes: For the moment I'm ignoring the portions of the trail that are overlayed on public roads with car traffic. [snip] But your ignoring part brings up a question for me about rail-trails. I have a database

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] US local government data: negotiating license?

2008-10-18 Thread David Carmean
Thanks for the feedback; I was away on a trip. I think I'll wait to see what falls out of the current license discussions before taking action on this. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] MASSGis legal question

2008-10-18 Thread David Carmean
If anyone involved in the MASSGis import sees this and has time, would you be willing/able to discuss your process of working through the legal considerations of importing this data? FWIW, I spent a week in the Boston area last week and used the MASSGis viewer (not OSM) to pre-scout

[Talk-us] Hydrography rendering (was: NHD status?)

2008-10-04 Thread David Carmean
How do we work with the people responsible for the Mapnik configuration on the main map interface, to get these HND features rendered nicely? For example, as far as I can tell, natural=marsh only shows up with Osmarender. There are a lot of natural=water features in my area which do a good

Re: [Talk-us] NHD status?

2008-10-02 Thread David Carmean
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:57:34AM -0500, Ian Dees wrote: On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Doug Morrison-Cleary [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Nooo. I live in northern MN and all we have around here are lakes! I really want them in yesterday grin. Please :-) Ok I suppose I should have been

Re: [Talk-us] NHD status?

2008-10-01 Thread David Carmean
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:19:09PM -0500, Ian Dees wrote: On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:08 PM, David Carmean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the mapping of FCode to OSM features is going to be very sparse, and I'm currently wishing we had an entire new set of hydrology=something feature

Re: [Talk-us] NHD status?

2008-09-30 Thread David Carmean
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:52:38AM -0500, Ian Dees wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:40 PM, David Carmean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I begin to manually import some NHD shapefiles for my area, will I be wasting my time/others' time? How is the bulk import work progressing? How do you

[Talk-us] good examples of foot/bike/horse trails in North America?

2008-09-29 Thread David Carmean
Is there an area in the US or Canada with exceptionally good coverage of multi-purpose recreational trails? Looking for best current tagging practices for same. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] NHD status?

2008-09-29 Thread David Carmean
If I begin to manually import some NHD shapefiles for my area, will I be wasting my time/others' time? How is the bulk import work progressing? How do you effect a freeze so we don't end up with duplicates? A brief look shows the NHD high-res data for my area to be really quite well aligned

[Talk-us] US local government data: negotiating license?

2008-09-23 Thread David Carmean
[ sorry for the crosspost ] Have any of you persuaded a local (US) government to release data under a license compatible with OSM? I've been sent a shapefile for a network of recreational trails by a local government association (represents nine counties). I explained my plans on the